On 8/11/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
I don't like this middle ground at all. We need to be firmly either *for* or *against* paid editing. If we equivocate as we currently do, then you'll have people figuring out which articles are coming through this process and AfDing them all "because Jimmy said it was a conflict of interest". Either welcome it or ban it - where the hell do we stand right now?
Whats so hard about "we welcome text which is good, no matter who or how it was created and we reject or repair text which is bad."?
For or against paid editing? Paid editing is an orthogonal issue. I wish all of our contributors could be better compensated for their fantastic contributions.
If we can't cope with bias coming from known-interested sources then we have no hope... most biased sources do not announce their intentions.